Ticking with Love (Ticci-Toby x reader)

Ch. 79

    "Y/n? Y/n are you ok?" I sprung up only to wince back in pain as I clenched my neck. "What?" I shut my eyes and gag as I remembered my neck was cut. I looked at the person with their familiar voice. "Mr. Smiley?" I whispered in shock as I opened my arms for a hug.
"You shouldn't speak anymore until your neck heals, from now on, you will write what you say until your feeling better." He hands me a pencil and a notebook. I nod in reply, knowing it was the best for me and it hurt to talk with my sore neck.
I wrote on the piece of paper.
'Thank you'
"No problem! Oh good news! I have Jane taken captive by Clockwork! She brought her to me- oh how splendid of her!" He clapped his hands together and gave a jolly laugh like it was St. Nick himself. I shuddered at the thought and wrote in the piece of paper.
'Mr Smiley, she was part of the problem with my neck.'
He gasped in disappointment and looked to the floor. "She's with me now in the kitchen, I'll go talk to her." He walks into the kitchen and I listen to their conversation, staring at the ground as I was on the couch.
"Hey Clockwork! Y/n told me that you were part of the problem that she can't talk!" I heard Clock stutter and start to laugh. "W-What? Why- hahaha! She's probably hallucinating since a lot of her blood has been lost!" She laughed it off again and walked out of the room and into the living room- the room I was currently in.
As she walks past me and into the lab, she eyes me with death in her pupil, her clock eye ticking faster than ever before. I could read her thoughts just by staring at her.
I will kill you.
I feel my chest jump as I swallow and frown at the ground, staring at my feet and clicking them together.
After the crazed girl walked out of the room, I decided to look for Jane. Since Mr. Smiley didn't tell me where she was, I had to look everywhere.
A little adventure won't hurt.
I smiled to myself and checked out the office. No one there. I looked in the bathroom. Wrong. Closet? Yeah! I saw Jane asleep and laying in the closet, resting peacefully. I noticed she was tied up- probably so she didn't run away.
Closing the closet doors and walking out of the office room, I look in the kitchen and see the two knives laying on the counter- the tip covered in blood- my blood.
Hallucinating, huh Clockwork?
I laughing inside at Clockwork's effortless response to Mr. Smiley until I heard something right next to me. I suddenly turned my head to whoever made the noise and noticed black gloves, yellow string, a black coat, a scarf, and by golly it was the Puppeteer.
I jumped and stared at him, wide eyed. "...Puppet?" I asked quietly. He smiled, running over and wrapping his arms around me, tightly squeezing. "I really missed you y/n." His voice was different in a way. To me, I remembered it as commanding and seductive- but now it was shy and shaky.
I pat him on the back,"I missed you too, Cheshire Cat." We both smiled warmly at each other.